The Image: Took this as we were about to land in melbourne after a trip to the Philippines. Love the rays.
The Edit: Topaz adjust for exposure and detail, some USM and Noise Reduction
The Prediction: Because it's not really a plane, but part of a plane could mean it loses votes, also middle horizon and blown out highlights...so high 5's???
[Mar. 27th, 2010 07:12:23 AM]
I am totally blown away by the score of almost 7.3!
I love the image and wish it was Advanced Editing to fix the blown highlights etc, but at the end of the day, it's not. Wow, thanks everyone for the votes and comments
POST: Woohoo! You little beauty!!!
Folks, i honestly thought this year would be a dog of a year for my photography as I have been so busy at church and I have been doing so much video editing (D300S) it's been taking me away from still images. So, to win this ribbon with a decent score on an image that had a validation request on it is a sweet thing!
Thanks for all the votes. I really love the dpc family!
It is also an image from our return trip from the Philippines whcih means a lot to me. Thanks. Two blues so far this year...I'm loving it!
Statistics
Place: 1 out of 90 Avg (all users): 7.1790 Avg (commenters): 8.4737 Avg (participants): 6.8000 Avg (non-participants): 7.2593 Views since voting: 8973 Views during voting: 482 Votes: 229 Comments: 57 Favorites: 23 (view)
I didn't make it back in to comment before voting ended. Colors were stunning, and the light breaking through the clouds really made the overall image for me. Great shot.
The Prediction: Because it's not really a plane, but part of a plane could mean it loses votes, also middle horizon and blown out highlights...so high 5's???
This image stopped me in my tracks during voting. Glad to see it take the blue.
[ edit ] On a side note, I get really disappointed when people don't allow themselves to enjoy an image because they are too busy searching for technical flaws or violation of compositional conventions. I honestly didn't even notice the blown out clouds until I read your description and struggle even now to figure out how they diminish the visual impact of this image. I do not typically think of the cabin of a commercial airliner as an enviable photographic destination!
bryanbrazil Topaz Adjust is allowed in basic as it applies the filter over the whole image like Neat Image or Noise Ninja etc. I have already had the image validated
bryanbrazil Topaz Adjust is allowed in basic as it applies the filter over the whole image like Neat Image or Noise Ninja etc. I have already had the image validated
I really liked the bottom half of this, but if I were voting I would have voted it quite a bit lower than I would want to due to the sky being so blown out. I figured it would place decent, but never would have guessed a blue ribbon. Voters were very forgiving on this. Very, very forgiving...
That's awesome. Don't you love looking out of the window as you descend and take off? Even though the highlights are blown out, this has a perfect division of horizontal thirds. The cloud pink gray section, the blue (I like how the horizon cuts the image in half which is another way of looking at it) and the lower green part. They gradate into one another so beautifully. Nicely done.
I like this - what could have been an ordinary shot has turned out something special - the colours, sunlight, clouds - all well captured and atmospheric. Cool
Most airplane out the window shots all just end up looking the same. But Wow, I really like this one. Great light, a bit blown out at the sun but for me that isn't a problem considering the shot.
This is a pretty cool shot. Probably going to get alot of comments about the sky being too blown out in the center though. I have taken alot of shots from Airplane windows, In fact I will be doing it tomorrow morning so I know that it is not easy to get a nice shot especially when those windows are usually quite dirty. i am not voting on this challenge but if I were I would give this a 7
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